One dead after Kenyan cargo plane crashes into building after takeoff

One person is believed dead after a plane carrying four passengers crashes
into commerical building

By AFP

5:41AM BST 02 Jul 2014

A cargo air plane crashed into a commercial building shortly after takeoff on Wednesday from the Kenyan capital's main airport, the busiest in East Africa, aviation authorities said.

"A Fokker 50 cargo plane with four people onboard has this morning crashed at a commercial building," after taking off from Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), Kenya Airports authority said in a statement.

The Kenya Red Cross tweeted that one body has been recovered.

The plane crashed shortly after dawn on Wednesday in an area outside the airport where there are office buildings and factories which would be expected to be largely empty at that hour.